Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith, Office of CTO at DevRev, is a technology leader with 35 years of experience in enterprise IT, AI, cloud infrastructure, and digital transformation. He currently focuses on agentic AI and enterprise shared memory, and has spent his career helping organisations adopt emerging technologies and build high-performing teams.

Joined: 19 Jun 2026
Articles: 3

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Innovate

Your AI ROI is built on a price you don’t control

AI ROI depends on more than today’s token prices. Jeff Smith argues that enterprise architecture can reduce inference costs and limit exposure to changing AI provider economics.

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Innovate

Enterprise AI doesn’t need better demos. It needs better benchmarks.

Enterprise AI should be evaluated on production readiness rather than polished demonstrations. This article explains why better benchmarks are essential for measuring accuracy, safety and scalability.

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Data

The model isn’t the variable. The foundation is.

As organisations focus on AI models and hallucinations, they often overlook the real issue: data foundations. This article explores why enterprise AI trust depends on traceable, verifiable data relationships rather than model selection alone.